Li-Young Lee, from I Loved You Before I Was Born, The Undressing: Poems
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— Ernest Hemingway, from a letter to Martha Gellhorn.
Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life
Text ID: Awake in the darkness, afraid to die.
Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life
Text ID: He was a thing that could no longer be saved, abandoned.







![May 25, [1913] For heaven's sake, why on earth don't you write to me? Not a word for a whole week. It really is dreadful. [new paragraph] May 27, 1913 So this is the end, Felice; you dismiss me with your silence, and put an end to all hope for the only kind of happiness I am capable of in this world. But why this terrible silence, why not an honest word. why for weeks past have you been noticeably, so awfully noticeably, fretting about me?](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8e776fb5e1f024b1e708292d0a2d6e6/871f2f3b3036543c-ae/s500x750/1977bb597119b4fdd482f99053538efd23c68ba5.jpg)